CVE-2012-6637
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 8.9%EU EUVD
Apache Cordova 3.3.0 and earlier and Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 and earlier do not anchor the end of domain-name regular expressions, which allows remote attackers to bypass a whitelist protection mechanism via a domain name that contains an acceptable name as an initial substring.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 8.9% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-6483)
- Published
- March 3, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-6483 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- adobe / phonegap
- apache / cordova
- apache / cordova
- apache / cordova
- apache / cordova
- apache / cordova
- apache / cordova
- apache / cordova
- apache / cordova
References
- http://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/2012/04/30/building-android-javajavascript-bridges/
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/124954/apachecordovaphonegap-bypass.txt
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Jan/96(Patch)
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdf(Exploit)
- http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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